(1) At or before the time when a person (the applicant ) becomes a standard employer - sponsor of a superannuation entity, the person (the issuer ) who is to provide the superannuation products to the applicant's employees must give the applicant a Product Disclosure Statement in accordance with this Division for each of those superannuation products.
(2) If:
(a) a person (the applicant ) applies for the issue of an RSA to the employee; and
(b) the applicant has not previously applied to the RSA provider for the issue to any employee of an RSA of the same kind;
the person (the issuer ) who is to issue the RSA to the employee must, at or before the time when the RSA is issued to the employee, give the applicant a Product Disclosure Statement in accordance with this Division for the RSA.
(2A) If:
(a) a trustee (the applicant ), under Part 24 of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 , applies on behalf of a person for the issue of an interest in a relevant superannuation entity; and
(b) the applicant has not previously applied under that Part for the issue of an interest in that entity on behalf of any person;
the person (the issuer ) who is to issue the interest to the person must, at or before the time when the interest is issued to the person, give the applicant a Product Disclosure Statement in accordance with this Division for the interest.
(2B) If:
(a) a trustee (the applicant ), under Part 9 of the Retirement Savings Accounts Act 1997 , applies on behalf of a person for the issue of an interest in a relevant superannuation entity; and
(b) the applicant has not previously applied under that Part for the issue of an interest in that entity on behalf of any person;
the person (the issuer ) who is to issue the interest to the person must, at or before the time when the interest is issued to the person, give the applicant a Product Disclosure Statement in accordance with this Division for the interest.
(3) The issuer does not have to give the applicant a Product Disclosure Statement under subsection (1), (2), (2A) or (2B) for a financial product if:
(a) the applicant has already received a Product Disclosure Statement for that financial product that contains all of the information that the first - mentioned Product Disclosure Statement would be required to contain; or
(b) the issuer believes on reasonable grounds that paragraph (a) applies.
Note: Information in a Supplementary Product Disclosure Statement is taken to be contained in the Product Disclosure Statement it supplements (see section 1014D).
(4) The issuer need not give the applicant a Product Disclosure Statement under subsection (1), (2), (2A) or (2B) in the circumstances specified in the regulations.
(5) In this section:
(a) terms used in subsection (1) that are defined for the purposes of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 have the same meanings as in that Act; and
(b) terms used in subsection (2) that are defined for the purposes of the Retirement Savings Accounts Act 1997 have the same meanings as in that Act; and
(c) relevant superannuation entity has the same meaning as in section 1016A of this Act.